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US20110076686A1
US20110076686A1 US12/934,829 US93482909A US2011076686A1 US 20110076686 A1 US20110076686 A1 US 20110076686A1 US 93482909 A US93482909 A US 93482909A US 2011076686 A1 US2011076686 A1 US 2011076686A1
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  • the present invention concerns a method for detecting and enumerating viable microorganisms of the species Legionella pneumophila in a sample.
  • the invention also includes a kit suitable for use in such a method. This method and kit enable viable microorganisms to be quantified more rapidly.
  • Legionella bacteria are ubiquitous in wet or moist environments such as soil and non-marine aquatic habitats. They can also be found in warm and cold water installations, cooling towers of air conditioning systems and water humidifiers.
  • Legionella especially Legionella pneumophila , are pathogens that can cause an acute bacterial pneumonia, generally known as “legionnaires disease”, which is often lethal for infected individuals.
  • PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • DNA polymerase to amplify a piece of DNA by in vitro enzymatic replication. During the progression of the technique the DNA generated is used as a template for replication which brings about a chain reaction in which the DNA template is exponentially amplified. PCR enables a single or few copies of a piece of DNA to be amplified by generating millions or more copies of the DNA piece. Typically such a method is described by Diederen et al., J Med Microbiol. 2007 January; 56 (Pt 1):94-101.
  • PCR a drawback of PCR is that the samples tend to contain polymerisation reaction inhibitors and therefore do not consistently provide quantitative results. Furthermore, the technique relies upon a prior DNA purification step which can result in loss of DNA with the consequential underestimation of the Legionella present. To some extent these disadvantages are overcome by real-time PCR which is quantitative. However, the technique cannot distinguish between viable cells and non-viable cells.
  • FISH fluorescent in situ hybridisation
  • an oligonucleotidic probe labelled by a fluorescent substance penetrates into the bacteria cells.
  • the probe will attach itself to its target and will not be removed by any subsequent washing step.
  • the bacteria in which the probe is fixed will then emit a fluorescent signal.
  • This fluorescent signal may then be quantified by techniques such as flow cytometry, solid phase cytometry, or epifluorescent microscopy.
  • a typical FISH technique is described by Dutil S et al J Appl Microbiol. 2006 May; 100(5):955-63. However, using the FISH technique alone the total number of viable Legionella pneumophila could be detected but unfortunately the method could not exclusively identify only those Legionella pneumophila bacteria able to divide and by consequence make a colony.
  • a further method for enumerating viable Legionella pneumophila involves ChemChrome V6 and is described by Delgado-Viscogliosi et al Appl Environ Microbiol. 2005 July; 71(7):4086-96.
  • This method allows the quantification of Legionella pneumophila as well as discrimination between viable and non-viable bacteria. It combines specific detection of Legionella cells using antibodies and a bacterial viability marker (ChemChrome V6) and employing epifluorescent microscopy for the enumeration.
  • ChemChrome V6 a bacterial viability marker
  • this technique distinguishes between viable and non-viable cells it is not able to separately identify those colony-forming bacteria.
  • EP-A-1852512 describes a method for identification and enumeration of several pathogenic microorganisms including Legionella pneumophila .
  • the method incorporates the direct viability count (DVC) and the fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) but also employs a helper probe in order to amplify the signal.
  • Helper probes are unlablled oligonucleotides that bind to regions adjacent to that targeted by the specific labelled probe. This enhances in situ accessibility and hence the probe conferred signal.
  • EP-A-1852512 The method described in EP-A-1852512 is said to employ a DNA gyrase inhibitor such as nalidixic acid, which stops cell division, increases the intracellular rRNA content and the cellular length of sensitive cells.
  • a DNA gyrase inhibitor such as nalidixic acid
  • nalidixic acid is not a reliably effective DNA gyrase inhibitor for Legionella pneumophila .
  • this document does not mention problems of inaccurate enumeration that can occur due to the presence of naturally fluorescent microorganisms.
  • step (2) is performed on the sample so treated in step (1) and then step (3) is conducted following step (2).
  • Step 1 of the inventive method is known as Direct Viable Count (DVC) which is based on incubating a bacteria in the presence of an antibiotic or DNA gyrase inhibitor which blocks the cellular division without deteriorating the cellular metabolism. Therefore the living bacteria will tend to elongate but not divide and so can be distinguished from the dead bacteria which do not change in size. It is therefore possible to identify living bacteria by microscopy.
  • DVC Direct Viable Count
  • AFNOR French Association of Normalization
  • ciprofloxacin and cephalexin are very effective DNA gyrase inhibitors. Both of ciprofloxacin and cephalexin allow the Legionella pneumophila cells to elongate in preparation for cell division but actually block these elongated cells from dividing. By contrast nalidixic acid does not provide sufficient elongation of the Legionella pneumophila cells to be effective for the present method.
  • the method of the present invention enables Legionella pneumophila to be identified and quantified reliably and within a timescale normally of less than 24 hours. This provides significant improvements in water sanitary control.
  • the ciprofloxacin or cephalexin may be used in any effective amount. Typically this would be in concentrations of up to 20 mg/L or higher within the medium contained in the cell nutritive resource. Preferably the concentrations are between 1 and 10 mg/L.
  • the cellular proliferation inhibitor is ciprofloxacin. We have found the greatest cellular elongation can be achieved when the concentration of ciprofloxacin is between 2 and 6 mg/L after a duration of 12 hours, especially between 3 and 5 mg/L.
  • the cell nutritive resource should contain any suitable growth medium composition applicable to the DVC method and suitable for Legionella pneumophila .
  • a suitable medium composition may comprise a medium, selective supplement, cellular proliferation inhibitor (ciprofloxacin or cephalexin), and growth supplement.
  • the medium provides the minimum nutrition required to allow growth of Legionella pneumophila . It may be any suitable medium as described in the literature, for instance according to the standard method prescription T 90-431 (as given above) without agar and charcoal.
  • the selective supplement is often required in order to limit the development of interfering microorganisms.
  • the choice of antibiotic may be any known supplement suitable for the DVC method, for instance has described in standard method T 90-431 (as given above). Nevertheless the concentration of each antibiotic in general should be adapted for the particular liquid medium. However, it would not necessarily be detrimental in cases where these other microorganisms are not completely eliminated since step 2 will usually be sufficiently specific to overcome the effect of interfering bacteria.
  • the growth supplement is not essential to allow growth of the Legionella pneumophila bacteria, it can optimise its growth. Legionella pneumophila is characterised by doubling in 120 min (under optimum conditions). However, we have found that in some cases the viable Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are able to form colonies may not necessarily form colonies immediately and instead undergo a delay or lag phase before growth commences. This lag phase can be between 8 to more than 20 hours in the function of initial physiological state.
  • the lag phase for Legionella pneumophila can be reduced by including as the growth supplement and antioxidant reagent into the cell nutritive resource.
  • the antioxidant reagent may act directly upon reactive oxygen species (ROS) or by other means such as causing an effect on the metabolism of the microorganism, directly or indirectly, which brings about a reduction in ROS.
  • Suitable antioxidant reagents include catalase, ascorbic acid, sodium metabisulphite, dimethyl sulfoxide, TDPA (3,3′-thiodipropionic acid) and pyruvate etc.
  • antioxidant reagent is pyruvate.
  • Preferred doses of antioxidant reagent, especially for pyruvate are between 0.5 and 1.5 g/L, especially around 1 g/L.
  • the cell nutritive resource may include at least one compound that indirectly inhibits the formation of and/or degrades the Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), said compound may bring about reduced levels of ROS by interfering with the metabolism of the microorganism.
  • ROS Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Such compounds will include amino acids or their salts.
  • a particularly preferred compound is glutamic acid or glutamate salt.
  • the cell nutritive resource would include glutamic acid or glutamate salt, especially the sodium salt.
  • glutamic acid or glutamate salt especially the sodium salt.
  • the amount of glutamic acid or glutamate will be between 0.01 and 5% by weight calculated as the sodium salt.
  • the cell nutritive resource includes both pyruvic acid or pyruvate (especially the sodium salt) together with glutamic acid or glutamate (especially as the sodium salt).
  • This combination of pyruvic acid or pyruvate with glutamic acid or glutamate seems to induce a synergistic effect in that it allows a higher estimation (and therefore more accurate estimation) of culturable Legionella than either compound respectively used alone.
  • this combination brings about a further reduction of lag phase during development of the Legionella pneumophila , in particular in a liquid medium.
  • Such a reduction of lag phase in liquid medium results in a reduction of the time required to obtain a visible colony on agar plate.
  • the amount of pyruvate and glutamate will be as stated previously. It is particularly preferred that the ratio of glutamate to pyruvate will be in the range between 1:1 and 50:1, especially between 5:1 and 20:1 and more especially between 7:1 and 15:1.
  • Glutamate is not known to be an antioxidant. However, it s appear that indirectly glutamate could reduce the endogenous production of ROS naturally formed during growth or their consequences on macromolecules (oxidation).
  • the method of the present invention can enable a shorter incubation period to be employed, desirably no more than about 24 hours. Preferably this can be reduced to 12 hours, especially when there is a low occurrence of bacterial interference and/or high occurrence of Legionella pneumophila bacteria.
  • the sample may be collected from any suitable location. This may for instance be a sample of water from recirculating water in a cooling system. However, desirably the sample may be obtained from water in the form of an aerosol. Typically the aerosol may be located in a cooling tower or air conditioner. Desirably the water condensed from the aerosol before testing according to the method of the present invention.
  • the mode of incubation can be as defined in literature describing the DVC procedure.
  • Such a method can include sample filtration and then filter incubation on pads soaked with the medium.
  • the sample, or concentrated sample is directly incubated with the medium and then filtrated. In this way we can reduce the risk of losing bacteria during the incubation process and provide better conditions during incubation, for instance oxygen transfer or agitation of the sample.
  • Step 2 of the inventive method can employ a standard FISH protocol.
  • the cells may be fixed by treating the external membrane or envelope of the cell to make it permeable to the oligonucleotidic probes.
  • fixing solutions that are aqueous solutions of alcohols or aldehydes which are miscible with water at 25° C.
  • Suitable alcohols or aldehydes include formaldehyde, paraformaldehyde, ethanol and/or methanol.
  • solutions of formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde can be up to 10% by weight and preferably between 1 and 5%.
  • the alcohols will be at least 50% by weight and generally between 60 and 90% by weight.
  • this treatment can be achieved by sequential treatment with one or more of these solutions.
  • the treatment may comprise a solution of between 1 and 5% formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde followed by two or three solutions of ethanol or methanol of increasing strength between 50% and 90%.
  • the FISH procedure then employs a hybridisation procedure by employing a hybridisation buffer containing at least one fluorescence labelled oligonucleotidic probe comprising an oligonucleotide with attached fluorescent marker in which the oligonucleotide is capable of targeting a specific sequence within the cell.
  • the oligonucleotidic probes penetrate the external membrane of the cells and bind to the target sequence corresponding to the oligonucleotide. Binding will be understood to mean the formation of hydrogen bonds between complimentary nucleic acid pieces.
  • the oligonucleotidic probes are complimentary and capable of binding to a certain region of the ribosomal target sequence within the microorganism. Typically the probes comprise between 15 and 30 bases in length as single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid pieces and are directed to a specific target region specific to the microorganism.
  • the oligonucleotidic probe should desirably be a specific ribosomal ARN 16S probe of Legionella pneumophila . Any oligonucleotidic probes which specifically target microorganisms of the species Legionella pneumophila may be employed.
  • the probe will be selected from the group consisting of PNE 1 probe described by Grimm et al 1998 with a 5′ 3′ base sequence of ATC TGA CCG TCC CAG GTT, LEGPNE 1 probe (SEQ ID No 22) described by Grimm et al 1998 and Declerck et al 2003 having a 5′ 3′ base sequence of ATCTG ACCGT CCCAG GTT, and LP2 probe (SEQ ID No 23) described by Yamamoto et al 1993 having a 5′ 3′ base sequence of AGCTT TCATC CAAAG ATA.
  • a preferred form of the invention employs two nucleotidic probes.
  • One probe targets all microorganisms from the Legionella genus and the second probe is designed to hybridise specifically microorganisms of Legionella pneumophila species.
  • Each probe is labelled with different fluorescent dyes.
  • the microorganisms that are naturally fluorescent will be fluorescent in only a specific wavelength or narrow band of wavelengths and consequently using the two probes with different dyes that fluoresce at different wavelengths allows naturally fluorescent microorganisms that are not specifically Legionella pneumophila to be eliminated.
  • the first probe will hybridise microorganisms belonging to the Legionella genus, which includes but is not limited to Legionella longbeachae, Legionella jordanis, Legionella anisa, Legionella pneumophila .
  • This first probe can comprise a nucleotide that can bind with a target ribosomal sequence from any of the bacteria within the Legionella genus.
  • the first probe can be any of the probes selected from the group consisting of the LEG705 probe (SEQ ID no. 7) described in Manz et al. (Manz et al. 1995) with a 5′ 3′ base sequence of CTGGT GTTCC TTCCG ATC, the LEG226 probe (SEQ ID no.
  • the second probe can hybridise only the specific species of Legionella pneumophila and can be any of the aforementioned nucleotidic probes with this characteristic e.g. any of the three probes PNE 1 probe, LEGPNE 1 probe, or LP2 probe.
  • any of the fluorescent dyes known to be compatible with the appropriate emission/excitation spectra of FITC for instance Syto9, Alexa 488 etc
  • Cy3 for instance Rhodamine, Alexa 583 etc
  • Step 3 involves quantifying relevant bacteria using a microscope. This can be achieved manually or automatically, for instance using an epifluorescent microscope. Preferably the detection and counting of bacteria labelled by in situ hybridization and fixed on a filter need the use of microscope equipped with an epifluorescence system.
  • Suitable detection devices include ChemScan RDI and ScanVIT- Legionella TM (Vernicon AG, Kunststoff, Germany). It possible to use chemscan (solid cytometry developed by AESChemunex) to detect and count labelled bacteria. However, this system can be use only 1 set of emission/excitation mirror (488 nm) and thus limit our protocol to use only one labelled probe.
  • ScanVIT- Legionella TM is preferred especially according to the aforementioned preferred aspect of the invention employing at least two probes, since this technique permits the use of two different fluorescent signals in order to eliminate naturally fluorescent microorganisms that are not Legionella pneumophila.
  • the method according to present invention facilitates the accurate and rapid quantitative determination for the existence of Legionella pneumophila .
  • the method is suitable for detecting Legionella pneumophila in samples derived from any of the group selected from industrial cooling waters, drinking waters, and natural waters.
  • the present invention also incorporates a kit for more rapidly detecting and enumerating viable microorganisms of the species Legionella pneumophila in a sample suspected of containing said microorganisms comprising:
  • a kit may comprise the following solutions: a medium composition (as defined above) which can be dehydrated for long storage; a solution for fixing the external membrane of bacteria, for instance formaldehyde; a hybridisation solution, for instance as described above, which should be made up shortly before use; a wash solution, for instance as described above, which should be made up shortly before use; nucleic acid fluorescence dye, for instance DAPI which could be dehydrated for long storage; an anti fading mounting reagent.
  • the kit may comprise filters. More preferably the kit may additionally comprise a physiological buffer; ethanol solutions of strength varying between 50 and 90%; and sterile water. The kit may also contain Eppendorf, for instance 2 ml.
  • Kit may also contain any of the embodiments described in regard to the first aspect of the invention.
  • the kit is suitable for use with the method of the present invention and enables rapidly and reliable enumeration of Legionella pneumophila.
  • a Legionella pneumophila suspension at final concentration of 10 6 bacteria/ml is dispatched in 2 suspensions of same volume. Only the first suspension (S1) is fixed with 3.7% (v/vl) formaldehyde at ambient temperature (20 to 22° C.) for 30 min. The both suspension are then washed three times by centrifugation (6,000 ⁇ g, 5 min at 20° C.), in PBS pH 7.4.
  • FIG. 1 shows the correlation between the standard method AFNOR (8 days) and the method of the present invention requiring less than 24 hours. The results indicate a good correlation between the two methods in terms of accuracy of identification of Legionella pneumophila.
  • V 1 Samples (V 1 ) were filtered through 25-mm-diameter, 0.2- ⁇ m-pore-size white polycarbonate membrane (Millipore, GTTP02500). Filters were rinsed two times with 10 ml of Solution A and were disposed in a sterile tube (Eppendorf 2 ml) containing 1 ml of solution A. Tubes were shaken 1 min at 30 Hz (4° C.). After filters removing, each suspension was dispatched like follow:
  • Probe used for FISH detection are: LEG705 (Eurogentec: 5′-CTGGTGTTCCTTCCGATC-3′), specific of Legionellaceae and labelled with FITC (Fluorescèine isothiocyanate) and PNE1 (Eurogentec: 5′-CTGGTGTTCCTTCCGATC-3′), specific of Legionella pneumophila genus and labelled with Cy3.
  • Probes were added to hybridization solution at final concentration of 1 ng/ ⁇ l.
  • Example 1 The experimental protocol of Example 1 is applied to a sample employing leg705 first probe labelled with a green fluorescent dye and PNE1 second probe labelled with a red fluorescent dye.
  • FIG. 2 shows four cases which allow Legionella pneumophila to be distinguished from naturally fluorescent bacteria. Referring to FIG. 2 :
  • the PNE1 probe is first described in Grimm et al. (Grimm et al., 1998). Specific sequence is: 5′-ATC TGA CCG TCC CAG GTT-3′
  • the Leg705 probe is first described in Manz et al. (Manz et al., 1995). Specific sequence is: 5′-CTGGTGTTCCTTCCGATC-3′
  • the first dye is used to stain nucleic acid of all micro organisms.
  • DAPI is used to stain bacteria in blue under UV excitation. This dye is not coupled with an oligonucleotidic probe.
  • the second two dyes are coupled with oligonucleotidic probe to allow specific detection. These two dyes must be characterized by two different spectra of excitation/emission. In the test FITC and Cy3 are used, which are the most commonly dyes used to FISH detection, but many dyes with respectively the same spectra are available.

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